An Entertainment Weekly article on Lost’s Desmond compares the show’s latest season to The Empire Strikes Back on page 4. Spoilers through last week’s The Constant, plus speculation for tonight and beyond.
Comics from the future!
Rebelscum has Dark Horse’s June solicitations, including Dark Times 12/Vector part 6, Legacy #25, Knights of the Old Republic #30, the second Dark Times trade collection, the official solicitation for the 800-page Luke Skywalker, Last Hope for the Galaxy collection, and Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods #1, start of an all-new Indy miniseries.
Sue Rostoni has ‘no comment’ on mystery books: Idle speculation on the new contract
Not the most surprising comment in the world, but hey, at least it’s something:
I can’t comment on this yet because the contract (a different one than the “main” contract) has not yet been signed. And “first announcements” will appear on starwars.com first, so if you haven’t read it from the main site, I can’t comment on it here.
As for ongoing contract issue that she also addresses, it should be noted that both books are listed as Del Rey releases on Amazon and also appear on RandomHouse.com (with the Del Rey logo) just like all the currently announced upcoming books. Would LFL pursue a secondary contract with Del Rey if they weren’t planning on renewing the main one? (And for that matter, why is Del Rey adding them to the catalog if the contract isn’t signed? Solicitation requirements?)
We have had dual book contracts before (Del Rey/Bantam in the 90’s) but I’m not really inclined to believe that LFL would go back in that direction.
It came from Japan: Book covers
StarWars.com features their first set of Japanese book covers with the movie adaptions and early EU. (Above: The Krytos Trap.)
Movie News: Narnia, DBZ, remakes, Shia, X-Files
- Narnia: Motherlode of Prince Caspian stills.
- DragonBall Z movie delayed, in part because of The Clone Wars. WE DID IT!
- Speaking of Crimes against Cinema: Remakes of Rosemary’s Baby and The Breakfast Club?
- People: D.J. Caruso still wants Shia LaBeouf for Y: The Last Man; Djimon Hounsou all hyped up for Conan?
- Spoilers: X-philies will love this… if it was 1996; Liev Schreiber and Hugh Jackman in costume on the set of Wolverine; Check out the Watchmen.
George Lucas is still richer than all of us
George Lucas is (naturally) one of Forbes’ Celebrity Billionaires.
He’s #277 on their list of The World’s Billionaires, and featured in Homes Of The Billionaires… But didn’t the L.A. Times article say he doesn’t live at the Ranch? We need a fact-checker, stat.
Who wouldn’t want an Artoo case mod co-pilot?
Gizmodo features this absolutely mind-blowing R2-D2 case mod.
Mystery books: The plot thickens
Paul over at TFN has dug up a few more leads on the untitled Traviss and Miller Star Wars books that have appeared in the last couple of weeks.
Eye Candy: Annie Leibovitz’s Star Wars
This has clearly been around for a while, and we probably already linked it back in 2005, but what the hell: Vanity Fair’s Star Wars photo album, containing almost all the fantastic Annie Leibovitz prequel set photos.
Margaret Cho: Braiding of the beast
Popmatters asks comedian Margaret Cho the eternal question: Star Trek or Star Wars? Her answer:
Star Wars for sure. I have never seen anything Star Trek. I love sci-fi, but I’m more Star Wars-oriented. I’m totally obsessed with Chewbacca. He’s incredible.
I’m a bit of an insomniac, and so when I can’t sleep, I think about brushing Chewbacca, getting all the tangles out. I bet he is really tangled and needs some of that ‘no more tears’ spray. So I would use a wide tooth comb. I also think about braiding Chewbacca. Like two long, French braids on either side of his body. I bet he would look really good if his hair was braided.